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Figure Concealed
Lisa Goldfarb
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Description for Figure Concealed
Hardcover. In a letter of January 1955, Wallace Stevens referred to Paul Valery as a 'prodigy of poetry'. This book explores the multiple parallels between these two great 20th century poets. It brings Valery's and Stevens' poetics and poetry into conversation, and focuses on the resonance of Valery's musical ideas in Stevens' poetic theory and practice. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
In a letter of January 1955, Wallace Stevens referred to Paul Valery as a "prodigy of poetry". Although his correspondence reveals that he was long familiar with both Valery's poetry and prose, and scholars from the early days of Stevens criticism to the present -- from Frank Kermode to Harold Bloom and Eleanor Cook -- have acknowledged Valery's importance for Stevens and noted the mark of Valery's poetics on Stevens' prose and poetry, until now there has been no comprehensive analysis of the affinities between them. The first full-length study of its kind, "The Figure Concealed" explores the multiple parallels ... Read more
In a letter of January 1955, Wallace Stevens referred to Paul Valery as a "prodigy of poetry". Although his correspondence reveals that he was long familiar with both Valery's poetry and prose, and scholars from the early days of Stevens criticism to the present -- from Frank Kermode to Harold Bloom and Eleanor Cook -- have acknowledged Valery's importance for Stevens and noted the mark of Valery's poetics on Stevens' prose and poetry, until now there has been no comprehensive analysis of the affinities between them. The first full-length study of its kind, "The Figure Concealed" explores the multiple parallels ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845194376
SKU
V9781845194376
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Ref
99-19
About Lisa Goldfarb
Lisa Goldfarb is Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of New York University, President of The Wallace Stevens Society, and Associate Editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal. She is author of The Figure Concealed: Wallace Stevens, Music, and Valeryan Echoes (2011), co-editor of Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism (2012), Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens (2017), and three special ... Read more
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